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My speech in text version - "Cloud computing- Is "IT" is ready for the change"

Hello Everyone ! I participated in IBM DEVELOTHON 2010 as a speaker
held at chennai. I spoke on “Cloud Computing – Is IT ready for the
change”.

Well, this is the text version of my speech that i had presented at
the Develothon.

Cloud computing – Is “IT” ready for the change. Well
before getting in to the topic, let me quickly say about me. I’m Praveen
Ram C, a Computer Science Undergraduate student apart from that, I’m a
lazy blogger and web designer too..

A word of caution. Being a blogger i always love to know from where
i’m getting a huge number of traffic. So, I did it using graph.
Eventually, I love to draw graph and experiment. So, I quickly plotted a
graph, between the level of audience pain that’s you and the number of
slides presented in 10 minutes presentation.

Well If it is going to be 20 slides at the max, that’s good. Since I
like to experiment, t thought that I could experiment with 87 slides. I
know what you think, don’t worry about being lost, but you know data not
being lost is so called Cloud Computing.

On the way to my this unconference, I asked a student what is cloud
computing ? He said, it is a next generation of computing where you can
have your data in a centralized place, so that you can have access to
data anywhere, anytime. His definition made me to ask another question.
We are storing something, that’s it nothing else, then why we call it
as “computing”.

Since i was not pretty much satisfied with the definition, i ended
up in searching Google. Its a known fact that Google would have
returned, say some millions of pages in 0.012 seconds. I took some 67
definitions, that makes 67 slides. So, here goes the first definition;
“Cloud computing could be described as a triangle with Software as a
Service (SaaS) at the top of the triangle, Platform as a Service (PaaS)
at the middle and Infrastructure as a Service at the bottom (IaaS).

Definition number two. No, I’m not going to read out all those 67
definitions. All those 67 definitions described cloud computing based on
triangle, but none of the definition said which side the triangle
should point out.

Lost at it..! certainly you will be. So what am i trying to say. There
is no definition for cloud computing. It is just a transition.

John McCarthy a eminent Computer Scientist visualized that sometimes in
the future computer services will be offered much like the Electricity.
When a innovation becomes product and when the product becomes service ?
We can answer to this question by putting up a graph.

When a innovation is made (in this case it has happened a
decade back), some company in the market will try to make the
innovation as the product. On seeing this another company will create
another product. So this process continues and creates a constant
pressure between companies. At some point in the feature the product
becomes widespread and fully featured, because of enhancements that has
been made by different game players. Ultimately the product becomes as a
service.

Now coming to the main part that is; Is IT is ready for the change.
Any industry will be ready for the change if they have the concept, the
feasibility of converting the concept into product is more, technology
for creating the product and the attitude to try something new.

In this case, concept had its way back around a decade. Some
companies are successful in their cloud product say for example IBM,
Microsoft, Google, SalesForce, etc. So the concept is a feasible one.
One major technology that cloud uses is virtulization. So we have the
technology too…! Any IT company will have the hunger to do something
different, in order to sustain in the market. There exist attitude also.
Having said all about this, It implies that IT is ready for the change.
Now, the product has been converted into service. What the companies
will be trying to do ? The answer is as simple as the question. They
just try to become the synonym of cloud. The synonym of cloud could be
IBM, Microsoft, VMware, SalesForce, Amazon EC2 etc.

Actually this is what i wanted to speak, since i spoke for the first
time in front of techwizards, i missed out some points here and there.

My special thanks goes to Mr. Dhirender Nirwani, Mrs. Apra Sahney,
to the organizers and of course to my sweet techwizards.